Unemployment by sex and age - annual data

In 2019, Portugal's unemployment by sex and age decreased by 8.9% compared to 2018, reaching 18.4%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 15.7%.

Portugal ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 47.0% (from 34.7% in 2014).

Source: Eurostat dataset une_rt_a, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.